In these five volumes, R. Yitzchak Meir Goodman has drawn from well over 100 volumes of Rabbinic thought, many of them out of print titles found only in his personal library. The main criterion for inclusion in his work was: is this a beautiful thought that readers will enjoy as much as I do? A major rabbinic source comes from the brilliant writings of HaRav Pinchas Friedman, a pillar of Belzer Chasidim. Until now, his deep, penetrating thoughts have never been translated from the Hebrew.

Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Goodman attended Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaas, then studied at Yeshiva University. He received Smichah from Rav Soloveitchik, and a doctorate in Jewish education from YU's Ferkauf Graduate School. The rabbi of Congregation Sons of Israel in Astoria for seventeen years and a Rosh Yeshiva at TA Manhattan, he retired from the pulpit after twenty-eight years at Young Israel of Far Rockaway.